Okay, I already enquired on the cygwin list whether anyone knew anything
about this, but by the deafening silence I gather not.

When using a command line of the form
$ curl -o "file_#1.htm" -x localhost:8000 http://www.sample.com/ {first,second}.htm

the result I get is as follows:
$ ls -la *.htm
-rw-r--r-- 1 Gary users 4189 Jan 25 08:39 file_1.htm

and the second file sent to stdout. Neither is what I would
expect given the man page:
  -o/--output <file>
         Write output to <file> instead of stdout. If you are using {} or
         [] to fetch multiple documents, you can use '#' followed by a
         number in the <file> specifier. That variable will be replaced
         with the current string for the URL being fetched. Like in:

           curl http://{one,two}.site.com -o "file_#1.txt"

From reading that I expected to have files file_first.htm
and file_second.htm as my results, sitting on the HD. Am I
misreading the man page or is there a bug in there
somewhere? If the latter, can someone compare with curl on
another OS and see whether the results are the same? (Note:
I would have expected to see people screaming on this list
if that were the case!)

$ curl -V
curl 7.10.2 (i686-pc-cygwin) libcurl/7.10.2 OpenSSL/0.9.6h zlib/1.1.4

$ uname
CYGWIN_98-4.10 daisy 1.3.19(0.71/3/2) 2003-01-23 21:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin

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